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TopicBudget 2019

Topic: Budget 2019

Nirmala Sitharaman’s aunt stitched the budget bahi-khata, took it to Mumbai temples

The red cloth in which the budget documents were wrapped in was first taken to Mumbai’s Siddhivinayak and Mahalakshmi temples to seek blessings.

Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget puts the ball back in RBI’s court to spur growth

By keeping spending in check, increasing taxes on the wealthy, and raising duties on gold and fuel, the budget showed a fiscal conservatism that immediately spooked investors.

Nirmala Sitharaman broke tradition in Budget speech by going back to tradition

The finance minister discarded the famous briefcase for a bahi-khata and didn’t mention fiscal deficit numbers, unlike her predecessors.

Sweet Dreams: What Subramanian Swamy said to Nirmala Sitharaman after budget

BJP’s Subramanian Swamy mocked Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Twitter, where he quoted paragraphs from the budget and questioned govt figures.

Budget 2019 shows how India can not only become $5 trillion economy, but can also do it fast

With a favourable external environment and a stable exchange rate, India can achieve $4 trillion in next three years.

Arun Jaitley writes Budget 2019 blends good economics & politics, like in Modi’s first term

Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget 2019 is based on the premise that fiscally prudent economies will eventually be rewarded against those who indulge in fiscal adventurism.

Farm to health to education, Modi govt’s Budget has no clear vision for India’s social sector

The Budget reverted to Modi government’s old avatar – a focus on infrastructure and a mission-mode model of meeting targets, this time for water.

Modi govt’s Budget 2019 as a platform for uplifting India to $5 trillion economy

Pushing the Indian economy to a size of $5 trillion by 2024-25 depends on real growth rate, inflation rate and the movement of rupee vis-à-vis US dollar.

Budget: Govt may favour gradualism over sudden change, pragmatic tinkering over clear plan

Combination of constrained fiscal situation, slowing economy and an extraordinary electoral mandate can provide the push for experimentation.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.